Greek Myths

I popped this on during a cross-country drive when my six-year-old demanded “a myth that isn’t boring.” Rebecca K. Reynolds’s narration hit the accelerator from the first line: the dry, playful tone made Cronus’s cannibalistic snack sound like a bedtime story gone rogue. Her Heracles is less muscle-bound demigod and more exhausted dad doing overtime chores—hilarious and oddly relatable. The standout was “The Flight of Icarus,” where Reynolds lets the waxy horror build in a hush before the inevitable crack-up, making the lesson land like a gut-punch rather than a lecture. My only nit: the abrupt fade-out after “The Trojan Horse” left me craving the wooden beast’s gory entrance. Production is bright and studio-clean, so the handful of sound effects (howling winds, clanking chains) never feel cheesy. All told, this is the rare children’s mythology title that can hold its own on a cross-country trip, a bedtime ritual, or a classroom road-trip playlist—proof that these old stories still pulse.